Testing MailScanner

[Julian Field]

At 22:38 25/08/2003, you wrote:
> > Er, feed some spam through it and see what it does with it?
>
>I could have figured that one out. ;) I guess my point is everything is
>coming through and now when I start the MailScanner I get the following error
>message:
>
>Executing /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner restart ..
>
>Shutting down MailScanner daemons: MailScanner: [ OK ] incoming sendmail:
>head: /var/run/sendmail.in.pid: No such file or directoryhead: /var/run/sm-
>client.pid: No such file or directory[ OK ] outgoing sendmail:
>head: /var/run/sendmail.out.pid: No such file or directory[ OK ]Starting
>MailScanner daemons: incoming sendmail: sendmail: usage: sendmail [ -t ] [ -
>fsender ] [ -Fname ] [ -bp ] [ -bs ] [ arg ... ][ OK ] outgoing sendmail:
>sendmail: illegal option -- qsendmail: usage: sendmail [ -t ] [ -fsender ] [ -
>Fname ] [ -bp ] [ -bs ] [ arg ... ][ OK ] MailScanner: [ OK ]

Your RedHat 9.0 box is almost certainly still configured to run Postfix and
not sendmail.
My RH9 box is switched off at the moment (generating too much heat in this
weather), but the command you need to run is
rh-switchmail-nox
or
redhat-switchmail-nox
and choose sendmail.
--
Julian Field
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